“A backward move” – Government slashes active travel budget for England Campaigners say two-thirds cut to funding will make it “impossible” to meet Net Zero and cycling and walking targets cycling
The government has slashed the budget for active travel schemes in England outside London in what has been described as “a backward move” by the Cycling & Walking Alliance , which estimates that two thirds of previously promised funding will be lost, making it “impossible” to meet Net Zero and active travel targets.
While it was delays announced in yesterday’s statement to the HS2 high speed rail project and the planned Lower Thames Crossing that grabbed the headlines in the mainstream media, it also covered cuts to active travel funding. While the various funding pots make it difficult to put a definitive figure on the size of the cuts, CAWA puts it at around two-thirds of the money previously promised for cycling and walking schemes in England outside London, which already received far less investment in active travel than the capital, as well as Scotland and Wales, where transport is the responsibility of the devolved administrations.
“It is heart-breaking to see vital active travel budgets wiped away in England, at the exact time when they are most essential to UK economic, social and environmental prospects,” WACA said. “It simply doesn’t make sense to withdraw investment in active travel at this time. “Promised Government targets of 50 per cent of all journeys in English towns and cities being walked or cycled by 2030, and for the UK to be Net Zero by 2050, are made impossible by these cuts.
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